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med_cat: (cat and books)
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Quote of the day

med_cat: (cat and books)
"There were some Republican leaders, feeling very blue indeed,
That their party, after hard fighting, had the ill luck to succeed..."
~~

Three guesses as to the source and timeframe...:P

Comments

Nov. 18th, 2016 02:17 am (UTC)

med_cat: (Default)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:08 pm (UTC)
Good guess, but it was much earlier ;)

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html
Nov. 20th, 2016 12:41 pm (UTC)

med_cat: (Default)
Nov. 20th, 2016 09:27 pm (UTC)
:)
Nov. 18th, 2016 03:22 am (UTC)
Well, it's Not here and now, cause the Establishment (Republicans) did NOT support Trump in any way, shape, or form.

(heard a rumor about a week ago how Mrs. Clinton was blaming her LOSS on the "pro-trump" Media bias. I ask: WHAT PRO TRUMP ads and commercials? Everything that I saw - for the presidential candidate - was anti-Donald, or blatantly pro-Hilliary).

Doubt it was for Bush - either George W. or George H.W., but I am almost positive they were not blue when Reagan won, so I'm guessing about twelve years ago or so?
Nov. 18th, 2016 05:25 pm (UTC)
"the Establishment (Republicans) did NOT support Trump in any way, shape, or form."

That is not true. (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/where-republicans-stand-on-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/481449/).

med_cat: (dog and book)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:22 pm (UTC)
Thank you for providing this extensive list with interesting details :)
Nov. 19th, 2016 09:58 pm (UTC)
You are very welcome.
med_cat: (Default)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:09 pm (UTC)
Good guess! But nope, much earlier than you'd thought:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
Nov. 18th, 2016 06:34 am (UTC)
I suspect you are going much further back in time...
med_cat: (woman reading)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:09 pm (UTC)
You are indeed correct ;) What gave it away, the poet's phrasing, or the fact that I posed the question?

Here's the source:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:45 pm (UTC)
Both:-p
med_cat: (Default)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:46 pm (UTC)
That's what I thought :P
Nov. 18th, 2016 05:15 pm (UTC)
Abraham Lincoln.

They were right to feel blue. Lincoln's bad decision plunged this nation into a disastrous war, that we have still not recovered from. The US would have been better off if he had let the slave-holding states secede.
med_cat: (woman reading)
Nov. 19th, 2016 07:10 pm (UTC)
Well done :)

And yes, perhaps the U.S. would've been better off, but isn't it also true that hindsight is always 20/20?

Here's the source of the quote:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html
Nov. 19th, 2016 09:55 pm (UTC)
Thank you. I do not blame Lincoln; he could not have foreseen the consequences of his decision. Reconstruction would have gone much differently had he not been assassinated.
med_cat: (Default)
Nov. 19th, 2016 10:22 pm (UTC)
Yes...